The cognitive ability of AIs is 0. AIs do not think. They do not reason. They do not understand. They can probablistically predict output based on training data, and an input, and that's it. With programming, it can find bits of code on the internet that are related to the keywords you give it, but it can't actually code a damn thing on its own. Which makes it a slightly less useful version of stack overflow, and for it ever to become better it will need a quantum leap of new techniques that are not currently on the horizon.

Does Superman have to do with Sharia?

If you want to find Taliban-style authoritarian moralism, you don't have the leave the country. Book bans, secret police, explicitly religious political messaging (Can't find the URL of the whitehouse propaganda video, I was thinking of, but you can find your own examples) , surveillance of political speech...

That's The American Way at the moment.

Well, yes ... you are going to be replaced, in the long run, by those you allow to live among you who have more children than you.

That's just ... math. (Or "science" if you prefer.)

Now, if you'd rather that be done by the feisty followers of a certain Mo, well, okay ... but I don't think you are going to like that culture or politics either.

I thought that's what the front page was. It keeps wasting space with things I'm not interested in, or actively dislike.

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It probably made me 5 times slower because it gets hung up on a stupid thing, misinterprets me telling it what the correction is, does something different, rewrites the whole thing, introduces different issue

I argued with an LLM for about an hour about how to properly escape paths with whitespace in them for passing to AWK. I could have fixed it myself quicker, but I wanted to see just how many times of going 'No, you have to because " it'd take before it'd realize what the actual issue was.

It took a *long time*

So, to sum up your argument, we've become weak, hedonistic, and uncaring about our own civilization.

"We" are no different than our great grandparents or their great grandparents. What has changed is the environment, and it would have effected them the same way.

What you call "weak", others people call "wealthy".

What you see "hedonism", others see agency and self-determination.

And the only people who ever spend time fretting about "our own civilization" are people who are unhappy with it and want it to change.

I'd also note you seem to have so internalized the "exponential growth forever" belief that you can't even see it. The earth's carrying capacity is not infinite, as we're learning a bit more every day. I'm absolutely not some Elifist or similar, but it is simply true, and those who profess to care deeply about "civilization" need to confront it if they want to be taken seriously.

And while abstractly there's no inherent political valence here, in this world these beliefs are mostly professed by authoritarian-natalists whose program is also wrapped around eugenics and really shitty racial beliefs as well as regressive beliefs about rights (especially those of women) and social control. I don't know if you're in that category or not, but that's a really ugly path to be treading.

The thing is though, this really should have been caught early and prevented by swedens intelligence services.

Like a lot of these sorts of mini tech scandals they seem to be about non tech people accidently doing something stupid that tech people probably wouldn't. You can't expect some bodybuilding security guard to be a guru on IT security. He's a big dude who punches people for a living. He's not hired to redteam the presidents comms stack. He's hired to punch strange behaving people in the head if they get too close to the president.

But Swedens security services SHOULD have had a bunch of policy on tech items. Ie leave your iphone in your locker at the start of the day and take a work issued locked down iphone that has social media etc apps blocked and just has the basic stuff he needs to get his job done, if the wife needs to urgently call, leave a message with the office and they'll forward a message, etc, plus a bunch of training on how to behave securely.

Clearly that never happened, and its a BYO phone scenario with a bunch of dumb shit installed. Its not just the exercise app thats tracking them, its candy crush, facebook, stupid web browser gps queries, etc. This can be dealt with, but it has to be dealt with by policy and procedures, not trusting some meathead who punches good to know what to do.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

Regardless of whatever budget Congress sets, the majority party has already been clear that they have no intent to enforce it. If the president uses the NASA money for something else, or even just puts it into his own personal pocket, we can be confident that he won't be impeached, and if impeached, he won't be convicted.

The only thing that matters is the total budget. The president is free to spend that total however he wishes. This isn't the law as written, but it's the law defacto. If voters have a problem with that (do they?) they can choose a different party to be the majority.

It was a strange move. HBO has a reputation for high quality stuff. The Wire, Game of Thrones, Sopranos. Thats 3 of my top 5 shows of all time (The others being breaking bad, and The Expanse). People *like* HBO. Why bury the lead when it comes to naming. Nobody knows or cares what "Max" is, they care about HBO.

... and figure out technological remedies. Like scrubbing and sequestering CO2, and going nuclear.

Or we could just emote and blame. But that doesn't seem terribly effective.

So the only thing the attacks need to steal information from your system is to already have access to the system to run arbitrary code on it. Gotcha.

Everyone knows that's disinformation to hide how deeply rooted in history opposition to vaccines really is.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.